Tracing the First Days of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in Greece and the Role of the First Imported Group of Travelers
Maria Bousali(Pasteur Hellenic Institute), Vasiliki Pogka(Pasteur Hellenic Institute), Giannis Vatsellas(Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens), Theodoros Loupis(Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens), Emmanouil Athanasiadis(Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens), Katerina Zoi(Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens), Dimitris Thanos(Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens), Dimitrios Paraskevis(National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Αndreas Mentis(Pasteur Hellenic Institute), Timokratis Karamitros(Pasteur Hellenic Institute)
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Abstract
The strain that dominated in Greece during the first pandemic wave was primarily imported from a group of returning travelers in February 2020, while molecular and clinical data suggest that the origin of the transmission was Egypt. The observed molecular transmission clusters reflect the transmission dynamics of this particular strain bearing the D614G mutation while highlighting the necessity of their use as a surveillance tool for the prioritization of nonpharmaceutical interventions and combating present and future outbreaks.
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